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Watched Cloverfield and Sweeny Todd this weekend. Two very different films that show the scope possible within the horror genre. Cloverfield takes the “blair witch you-are-there shaky cam” aesthetic, blends it with some pretty impressive CGI work and creates a compelling story that once it gets started never stops, and features interesting 3-dimensional characters you come to care about. Sweeny Todd is a musical with enough throat-slashing and arterial spray to keep those who prefer their horror nonmusical interested. Visually the film is absolutely stunning but then you cannot expect less from Tim Burton. 

I made the move to HD this weekend as well. I spend much of Sunday looking through the various channels. Man, some of the nature stuff was like looking out your window it was that real. Later on that evening the wife put on some non-HD channel and I have to leave the room. The image was so bad it gave me a headache.  The show didn’t help.